On Jan 22, 2:52*pm, Too_Many_Tools wrote:
Looks like we need to really tighten up requirements for concealed
weapon permits...even a conservative winger hamster could get one if
he were violent, mentally unstable, mentally challenged and has bad
credit.

Say that reminds me.....how is Gunner and the Great Cull doing these
days?

TMT

Warrant describes how 8 Va. slaying victims found
By DENA POTTER, Associated Press Writer Dena Potter, Associated Press
Writer

APPOMATTOX, Va. – The first deputy to arrive at a rural Virginia
homestead where eight people were slain found two females dead on the
porch and a male's body next to a car in the driveway, according to
search warrants released Friday.

Another man was found barely alive on a nearby unpaved road with a
gunshot wound to the torso. He later died at a local hospital. The
deputy heard shots and called for backup.

A tactical team went inside and found three more bodies and an
explosive booby trap. The warrants don't say where the eighth body was
found.

Police say Christopher Speight, 39, killed the eight early Tuesday at
the house he shared with his sister and brother-in-law and their two
children, who were among those slain. Speight fired on a police
helicopter and hid in the woods before surrendering nearly a day
later.

Police still have not released a motive, though friends say Speight
may have thought his sister was trying to kick him out of the house.

Speight is charged with one count of murder, and Commonwealth's
Attorney Darrel Puckett said Friday that he will meet with law
enforcement soon to discuss additional charges.

Puckett said Speight declined a court-appointed attorney during a
brief hearing Friday morning before Judge Richard S. Blanton in
Appomattox County Circuit Court.

Speight didn't make any other comments. An arraignment hearing has not
been scheduled.

Authorities identified the victims as Speight's sister, Lauralee Sipe,
and her husband, Dwayne Sipe, both 38; their 15-year-old daughter,
Morgan Dobyns, and 4-year-old son Joshua Sipe; 16-year-old Ronald "Bo"
Scruggs; and 15-year-old Emily Quarles and her parents, 43-year-old
Karen and Jonathan Quarles.

Appomattox County Chief Deputy Todd Craft confirmed a Richmond Times-
Dispatch report that Jonathan Quarles and Scruggs, Emily Quarles'
boyfriend, went to the house to find her and Karen. They had gone to
take Morgan home after she spent the night at the Quarles' house.

Relatives and people who knew Speight say he had a history of mental
breakdowns and may have become fixated on the notion that his sister
wanted to oust him from the house passed down to them by their
grandparents and mother. The family lawyer, however, says her
intention was exactly the opposite: She planned to deed the property
solely to him.

Speight had struggled since his mother died from brain cancer in 2006,
said uncle Thomas Giglio. Speight's father abandoned them some 30
years ago, and he and his mother were very close.

"He didn't take it good at all," Giglio said. "I don't think he ever
reconciled it."

Lynchburg attorney Harry Devening, who handled legal matters for the
family, said Speight had an apparent learning disability and history
of mental problems, and "ran away" from his sister's Georgia home for
several days during a breakdown in 2007, about a year after his mother
died.

Giglio said Dwayne Sipe found him in a motel room along a highway.
Even then the family had no reason to suspect Speight might turn
violent. Giglio said he last spoke to Dwayne Sipe the Saturday before
the shootings and everything seemed fine.

Devening said Lauralee Sipe perceived no problems either, signing a
deed late last week to put the family property in Speight's name. She
planned to record it at the courthouse immediately, he said, but both
Friday and Monday were state holidays.

The lawyer cautioned her that she was giving up her half of the
property.

"She said he was fine, he was normal, and she wasn't concerned about
it," Devening said. As for her share, "it was never of any consequence
to her. She was very happy with the arrangement."

___

Associated Press writers Vicki Smith and Larry O'Dell in Appomattox
and Harry Weber in Atlanta contributed to this report.

What does THIS article have to do with CCW? Not mentioned anywhere.
Looks like you're leaping to confusions, as usual.

Stan